CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Obama,
seeking to quell a storm of criticism from Republicans and pro-Israel
groups, directed the Democratic Party on Wednesday to amend its platform
to restore language declaring Jerusalem the Israeli capital.

The change, approved in a voice vote that had to be taken three times
because of a chorus of noes in the arena, reinstated the line “Jerusalem
is and will remain the capital of Israel” in a section that describes
Mr. Obama’s policy toward the country. That sentence was in the 2008
platform, but the Democrats removed it this year, saying that they
wanted to spotlight other elements of Mr. Obama’s policy and that the
platform should reflect a sitting president rather than a candidate for
office.

After a day of protests, however, and the prospect of an onslaught of
Republican attack ads, the president and the Democrats abruptly reversed
course. The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee,
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, said in a statement
that the change was made to “maintain consistency with the personal
views expressed by the president and in the Democratic Party platform in
2008.”

So Obama, devout politician and stalwart friend of Israel that he is only became bothered by the Jerusalem and 'God' issues when Republican read the platform and mocked it. And this is the leadership the Dems have on offer for the next four years? Is there any reason this wasn't taken care of weeks or months ago, or was Team Obama too busy comparing golf scores?

“The official acknowledged that the administration’s policy remains not to weigh in on the final status of Jerusalem, which is an issue to be decided by the parties. But the official said that Obama’s views and the administration policy are two separate things.”

If Obama doesn’t set administration policy, who does? Valerie Jarrett?

Isn't it possible that this could be a Sister Souljah moment for Obama where he benefits politically by creating distance between himself and some of the far-left elements in the Democratic Party (by essentially overruling them on these 2 platform points)?

I am sure everyone here will say no, that's not possible- that it only looks like Obama caved after the uproar, not like he was the reasonable centrist in the first place. I wouldn't be so sure.

A large jet plane crashed on a farm in the middle of rural Kentucky.
Panic stricken, the local sheriff mobilized and descended on the farm in force. By the time they got there, however, the aircraft was totally destroyed with only a burned hull left smoldering in a tree line that bordered the farm.

The sheriff and his men entered the smoking mess but could find no remains of anyone. Then they spotted a farmer plowing a field not too far away as if nothing had happened. They hurried over to the man's tractor.

"Hank," the sheriff yelled, panting and out of breath, "Did you see this terrible accident happen?"

"Obama had seen the language prior to the convention, a campaign source said, but did not seek to change it until after Republicans jumped on the omissions of God and Jerusalem late Wednesday. And even then, it had to be forced through a convention hall full of delegates who nearly shouted down the change."

I've been struck at the level of discord at the DNC.
The Jerusalem issue could cost them Michigan if Muslim Democrats stay home. The again, I have no idea how Muslims square the gay rights planks of the Democratic platform with Shria Law .. or is it just taqiyya ?

I expected more discord from the RNC, but Team Romney is the one who has all it's ducks in a row this election season.

I was right. Clintonis more popular than the Obamas. His favorables come in at 68 percent, while:

Mrs. Obama registered a 65 percent favorability rating, with just 27 percent holding an unfavorable opinion. President Obama’s favorability rating came in at 53 percent, with 46 percent holding an unfavorable opinion of the president.... Forty-four percent of Americans said they had a favorable opinion of the loquacious vice president, while 45 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of him.

I have been worrying myself sick - worried that somehow, someway, Barry and Mooshell would make it back to the White House in spite of all our efforts to defeat them and send their community organizing ass back to Chicago.

I need not have caused myself all this distress and anxiety.

These people are idiots.

And for the life of me I still cannot fathom why the DNC decided on North Carolina for the convention. Who in the hell made that decision?

They are all idiots - everyone one of them. I refer to whoever is supposed to be in charge or running the convention for the Dems.

Good for our side - maybe we can begin to get our country back together while there is still something left to work with.

why the DNC decided on North Carolina for the convention. Who in the hell made that decision? At the time, it was a swing state. I suppose they could have had it in Texas and risked annihilation and heat stroke.

1 By the waters of Babble-On there we sat down, yea, we leapt to our feet when we dis-remembered Zion.

2 We hanged our political banners upon the rafters in the midst thereof the Charlotte Convention Hall.

3 For there, they that carried us away captivatingly requiried of us a voice vote; and they that wasted 5 Trillion required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the re-election songs of anything except 2/3rds of the place that can't be named in the Party Platform.

4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land when we can't mention the Lord or Jerusalem? It beateth me.

5 If I forget to forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ability to reach into the Taxpayers pocket.

6 If I do not remember to forget thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my teleprompter, if I prefer the words Lord and Jerusalem above my Commander in Chief's joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of the DNC in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Erase it and erase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter's of Babble-On, who art happy to abort; happy shall he be, that escapeth the same reward thou hast served upon the aborted.

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. (Wait a second, that last bit is part of the Democrat Platform---never mind)

Just been keeping my head down and working steady - I work two jobs - I'm fixing to retire - if that damn marxist sob in the White House - if there is anything left by the time we get him out of there, I'll retire and get on with all the other stuff I've got lined up.

i wonder if anyone in the democratic party-media complex will ask why god and jerusalem was removed in the first place. you think they will ever tell us who in the democratic party wanted it removed in the first place?

“Well, really, it was essentially a technical oversight,” Wasserman Schultz, referring to the reversal, said on CNN.

Hey, so about the teleprompter deciding that "in the opinion of the chair, two-thirds having voted in the affirmative..." how do we know that was pre-loaded, rather than some puppeteer behind the scenes typing into it to tell Villar what to say in real time?

OK I will admit it, guilty as charged. Faced with the difficult choice of watching Ware smash Eli Manning into the Astroturf and the Cowboys to kick the stuffing out of the NY FOOTBALL Giants ( IN NY I MIGHT ADD Or is it NJ ) or listening to Bubba prattle on, I am sorry to say that my baser instincts got the better of me. Sue me.

OH Yeah, plus my previous channel button was occupied with the Texas Rangers thumping the KC Royals. What you dont like my excuses? What did you listen to for an hour, if not excuse after excuse on why the miserable failure should not be held accountable? Tell me did the dog eat the homework too? LOL

Jane:Has there ever been a worse day in a convention in the history of earth.

Yes, but will it be the worst evah for only one day?

Happy #EmptyStadiumDay everyone!

If I didn't have work and family and all that other stuff, I'd head down to Charlotte and start agitatin' about the Dems not letting me into the stadium to hear Obama. Come up with some good chants, make a few "Down with The Man!" signs (which on the back would read, "Obama is The Man!"), maybe one that said, "They Told Me That If People Voted For John McCain, We Would See A Sitting President Disenfranchise And Suppress Democrats At His Convention. And They Were Right!". Maybe another one that said, "This Wouldn't Be Happening If Hillary Were President!".

I'd probably stop short of getting arrested myself - but I bet I could induce others to engage in behaviors leading to their arrest. Not sure if I'd wear a vulva costume (or a belt around my neck), but I'd come up with something or other.

Obama specifically used the "poor syntax" defense at least twice in 2008. The first time was after the "bitter clingers" remarks in San Francsico. The other, ironically enough, was when he said "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided" to AIPAC.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday that he "mangled" his words when he described small town Americans as "bitter" at a private San Francisco fundraiser.
...
"My syntax was poor," Obama said.

And...

Mr. Obama responded, "the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech" and a reminder of the need to be "careful in terms of our syntax." He said his point had been "simply" that "we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war...

Why this keeps happening to the greatest orator this world has ever known is an unsolvable mystery.

The Democrats stepped into it and have both shoes covered. I dont think they are going to be able to get the stench to go away by election day either, but lets not use my take on the fiasco that is the DNC Abortion Festival and Apologia lets listen, shall we, to Jennifer Rubin:

Wednesday was a wonderful political day for Republicans. Let’s recap. The day started off with the flap over platform language. That in turn led to the spectacle of Democratic delegates booing the vote to put back Jerusalem and God back into the platform. It was even in the eyes of the most Obama-sympathetic media a horrid disruption, signaling both incompetence and hostility to things that many if not most Americans hold dear. The news got worse as Politico reported that the president had signed off on the platform sans God and Jerusalem. The Romney camp could hardly believe the avalanche of atrocious press. (Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s insistence that there had been no controversy brought CNN’s Anderson Cooper to declare she was operating in an “alternate universe.”)

I don't think bo knows what syntax is and he seems to hope we do not either.

He seems to use the term syntax when he actually means semantics.

HB Po. And Happy Empty Stadium Day indeed. I read that DFER had a panel where they openly embraced Charlotte-Meck as a model school system for others to emulate. Which is fascinating as I have literally seen color drain from peoples faces when I mention that high achieving Fulton is now being run by CMS refugees.

The models for the phrase "Locusts of the Mind" since most of them started their reign of devastation in Orlando. Being brought to Charlotte out of anger over the decision to end busing and return to neighborhood schools as an option.

Drudge has links to what is being written about the new Woodward book... this quote stands out in my mind:

Boehner sized up his adversary during one of his early private meetings with Obama, telling Woodward: “I just started chuckling to myself. Because all you need to know about the differences between the president and myself is that I’m sitting there smoking a cigarette, drinking merlot, and I look across the table and there is the president of the United States drinking iced tea and chomping on Nicorette,” the gum for smokers trying to break their habit.

DETROIT (AP) -- Authorities are investigating past incidents of indecent exposure along a river in eastern Michigan after the son of a pioneering sex researcher was charged with exposing himself in the area.

[snip]

Masters was arrested in New York's Central Park in May after an officer reported seeing him masturbating. His father was sex research pioneer Dr. William H. Masters.

In the same vein, Woodward portrays Obama’s attempts to woo business leaders as ham-handed and governed by stereotype. At a White House dinner with a select group of business executives in early 2010, Obama gets off on the wrong foot by saying, “I know you guys are Republicans.” Ivan Seidenberg, the chief executive of Verizon, who “considers himself a progressive independent,” retorted, “How do you know that?”

Nonetheless, Seidenberg was later pleased to receive an invitation to the president’s 2010 Super Bowl party. But he changed his mind after Obama did little more than say hello, spending about 15 seconds with him. “Seidenberg felt he had been used as window dressing,” Woodward writes. “He complained to Valerie Jarrett, a close Obama aide. . . . Her response: Hey, you’re in the room with him. You should be happy.”

Kind of previews Obama's entire campaign theme for 2012... He's President, you should be happy.

Any truth to the rumor that there has been another change of venue for tonight? I heard it has been moved to the Mecklenburg County Fairgrounds. There Obama is expected to nearly fill a 2500 seat covered amphitheater as an opening act for the New Von Trapp Family Players.

Sending a SecState to push the ChiComs to settle No China Sea maritime resource disputes with negotiations rather than Frigates and Marines is the right policy for the USA. Of course when the POTUS and the SecState are a sad joke, the ChiComs piss all over HildaBeast. On top of the economic disaster, Bam is going to start a war not of our choosing that we and our allies may lose out of his sheer incompetence: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9b296eec-f728-11e1-8e9e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz25hDJPpYs

One of the most popular hymns in England is "Jerusalem". There have been many adaptations especially at Pantomines at Christmas time and for Sporting events. I have taken to my own version in honor of the DNC convention:

The Restored Jerusalem Hymn

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon North Carolina's mountain green?
And was the holy Donkey of Obama/Biden
On Tar Heel's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our confused Villar?
And was Jerusalem buried here
Among those dark secular pols?

Bring us our bow of the electric Volt!
Bring us our arrows of Debt!
Bring us our Condoms! O clouds, unfold!
Bring us our Hope and Change and Thunderstorms!
We will not cease from sleepless fright,
Nor shall we not cling to the gun in my hand,
Till we have restored Jerusalem
In North Caroliina's green and pleasant l

That Axelrod/Jarrett Weasel Zipper link highlights a Politico article that has now changed....

A bit of the old one -"Obama had seen the language prior to the convention, a campaign source said, but did not seek to change it until after Republicans jumped on the omissions of God and Jerusalem late Wednesday. And even then, it had to be forced through a convention hall full of delegates who nearly shouted down the change."

the new one - "While the campaign at first said Obama had seen the language prior to the convention, it later said he did not learn of the issue until Wednesday morning, when he became aware of seeing news coverage of the issue. Once that happened, the president directed his staff to change the language to include a reference to God and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital because, the campaign source said, the amended version is “consistent with the president’s own positions.”
And even then, it had to be forced through a convention hall full of delegates who nearly shouted down the change."

I am convinced after watching the God and Jerusalem restoration vote that the Dems have lost their collective minds.

They are going to let an illegal alien speak tonight but will not do anything to allow our military vote to be expedited in time for the general election. That tells you the priorities of the "Party of Gov".

"“Headlines” at Hot Air has Stephanopoulos going after Bachmann. It is the usual stuff. In the spirit of getting down and dirty I wish they would fire back at these interviewers about statements the interviewers have made in the past.

George Stephanopoulos talks about the presidential transition On February 13th, 2009, Stephanopoulos, during a 58 minute gush-a-thon over newly appointed President Obama and his greatness, declares Obama “owns the economy” as of that date. It is at the 32 min mark.

Shortly thereafter he explains the difference between the “echo chamber” interviews of cable/talk radio, that only appeal to a particular group, and network interviews that are more about the facts.

Posted by: Threadkiller | June 28, 2011 at 03:11 PM"

Does anyone here have the ability to crop out the "Obama owns the economy" section? I would love to see that as part of a series of political ads on ABC.